A new book asserts that Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal known as the “Angel of Death,” may be responsible for the unnaturally high number of Aryan-looking twins in a small Brazilian town he frequently visited after fleeing to South America.
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Dispatches, May 2009
• German police investigators confirmed in February that Aribert Heim, the Mauthausen concentration camp […]
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Interview: Andrew Roberts / Masters and Commanders
Andrew Roberts, author of Masters and Commanders, burrowed through archival documents for the inside scoop on the relationships between Winston Churchill, FDR, George C. Marshall, and Alan Brooke.
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An American Pilot Encounters the Ghosts of Buchenwald
Soon after American soldiers liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 4, 1945, Gen. […]
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Was Poland’s Wartime Leader Murdered?
Last fall the Polish government, responding to growing calls to solve the mystery of Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski’s death, exhumed the general’s body and subjected it to a battery of forensic tests.
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Daily Quiz for March 24, 2009
This religious sect began in 1652 when charismatic former shoemaker George Fox spread his doctrine of Inner Light throughout England‚s North Country
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Daily Quiz for March 23, 2009
When Northwestern Virginia broke away from the rest of the commonwealth to form the new state of West Virginia during the Civil War, it was originally to be called this.
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Gen. William C. Westmoreland Was Right
Was Gen. William C. Westmoreland right in his Vietnam strategy? Author Dale Andrade argues that Westmoreland laid the groundwork for Creighton Abrams.
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Daily Quiz for March 22, 2009
This man was the first member of a U.S. President‚s cabinet ever sent to prison.
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Daily Quiz for March 21, 2009
Before L. Frank Baum‚s children‚s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was made into a movie in 1939, it became a successful Broadway musical in this year.